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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
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CHAPTER 21
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The Lord reveals his laws pertaining to servants; plural marriage; the death penalty for divers offenses; the giving of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; the regulations governing damage done by oxen.
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Now</span> these <i>are</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR ordinances.">judgments</a> which thou shalt set before them.
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If thou buy an Hebrew <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Bondage, Physical.">servant</a>, six years he shall serve: and in the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sabbatical Year.">seventh</a> he shall go out <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/21/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Liberty.">free</a> for nothing.
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If he came in <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR singly.">by</a> himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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Then his master shall bring him <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB before God; i.e. God’s representatives in judicial matters.">unto</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 22: 8 (8-9).">judges</a>; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/21/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 15: 17.">ear</a> through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
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&#182; And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
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And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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If he take him another <i>wife;</i> her food, her raiment, and her <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR marital rights.">duty</a> of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
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&#182; He that <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Murder.">smiteth</a> a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Capital Punishment; TG Punishment.">death</a>.
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And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver <i>him</i> into his hand; then I will appoint thee a <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 19: 2.">place</a> whither he shall <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 19: 3 (1-13); 1 Kgs. 2: 28.">flee</a>.
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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 27: 24.">slay</a> him with <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Guile.">guile</a>; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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&#182; And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 13: 29 (29-30); D&C 84: 27 (26-27).">death</a>.
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&#182; And he that <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stealing.">stealeth</a> a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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&#182; And he that <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse; TG Honoring Father and Mother.">curseth</a> his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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&#182; And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with <i>his</i> fist, and he die not, but <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR is laid up in bed.">keepeth</a> <i>his</i> bed:
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If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote <i>him</i> be quit: only he shall pay <i>for</i> the loss of his <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Time.">time</a>, and shall cause <i>him</i> to be thoroughly healed.
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&#182; And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
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Notwithstanding, if he <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE remains alive.">continue</a> a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he <i>is</i> his money.
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&#182; If men strive, and hurt a woman with <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Birth Control.">child</a>, so that <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/22b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE she has a miscarriage.">her</a> fruit depart <i>from her,</i> and yet no <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/21/22c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR other harm.">mischief</a> follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges <i>determine.</i>
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And if <i>any</i> mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Punishment; TG Retribution.">Eye</a> for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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&#182; And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
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And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
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&#182; If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blood, Shedding of.">die</a>: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/28b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR clear, innocent.">quit</a>.
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But if the ox were <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/29a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR accustomed to gore (also v. 32, 36).">wont</a> to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/21/29b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Capital Punishment.">death</a>.
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If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
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Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
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If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/21/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 26: 15 (14-16).">thirty</a> shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
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&#182; And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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The owner of the pit shall make <i>it</i> good, <i>and</i> give money unto the owner of them; and the dead <i>beast</i> shall be his.
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&#182; And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead <i>ox</i> also they shall divide.
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Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
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